Associate Department Head

Associate Professor - Landscape Pedology

Mailing Address:

Department of Crop and Soil Science
3017 Agricultural and Life Science Building
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331

Office: Agricultural and Life Science 3065
Phone: 541-737-6187
Fax: 541-737-5725
E-Mail:

Department Website: Department of Crop and Soil Science
Personal Website: Personal Web Page

Graduate Students:

• Peterman, Wendy
• Slevin, Sheila
• Zomeni, Zomenia

Faculty Research Assistant:

• Hash, Sarah Jane

Projects:

Publications:

Journals

• Lufafa, A., I. Diédhiou, S.A.N. Samba, M. Séné, F. Kizito, R.P. Dick, and J.S. Noller. 2008. Allometric relationships and peak-season community biomass stocks of native shrubs in Senegal's Peanut basin. Journal of Arid Environments. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2008.09.020
• Lufafa, A., I. Diédhiou, S.A.N. Samba, M. Séné, M. Khouma, F. Kizito, R.P.
  Dick, E. Dossa, and J.S. Noller. 2008. Carbon stocks and patterns in native shrub communities of Sénégal’s Peanut Basin. Geoderma 146:75-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.05.024
• Lufafa, A., J. Bolte, D. Wright, M. Khouma, I. Diedhiou, R.P. Dick, F. Kizito, E. Dossa and J.S. Noller. 2008. Regional carbon stocks and dynamics in native woody shrub communities of Senegal's Peanut Basin. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 128-1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2008.04.013
• Ammerman, A., P. Flourentzos, R. Gabrielle, C. McCartney, J.S. Noller, D. Peloso, and D. Sorabji, 2008, More on the new early sites on Cyprus: Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, pp. 1-23.

Abstracts

Education:

B.S.	Geology	California State University, Los Angeles
M.S.	Geology	California State University, Los Angeles
Ph.D.	Soil Geomorphology of the Peruvian-Atacama Desert	University of Colorado, Boulder

Current Teaching Schedule:

Spring	CSS 466/566	Soil Morphology & Classification
Spring	CSS 468/568	Soil Landscape Analysis

Research:

Jay and his research group are developing applications of predicitive mapping techniques in the survey of soils and ecological units across forests, farms and rangelands in Oregon.

For more than the past decade Jay has documented temporal and spatial variability in soil development along the Saharan ecotone with focus of investigation of co-evolution of landscape and culture. An example of co-evolution of landscape and culture is soil erosion and the relationship with ancient logging and deforestation in Cyprus and Greece.

"Camps on Cyprus May Have Belonged to Earliest Open-Water Seafarers" - The New York Times, November 22, 2005

Current Projects:

Oregon

• Soil-Landscape Relations in Oregon

Cyprus

• Cyprus Geomorphological Project
• Troodos Archaeological & Environmental Survey Project

Art of Soils:

• Soilscape Paintings
• Art About Agriculture 2008
• Art About Agriculture 2007
• Life@OSU article

Some Recent Publications:

Ammerman, A.J. and Noller, J.S., 2005, New light on Aetokremnos. World Archaeology 37:533-543.

Quaternary Geochronology - Methods and Applications

Jay Stratton Noller, Janet M. Sowers, and William R. Lettis, Editors

Surveys the established and experimental means of dating Quaternary surficial materials. Experts review the basic theory, procedures, accuracy and applications for each method. This is an authoritative reference for Quaternary scientists, geochronologists, paleoseismologists and students. American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf Series, Vol. 4, 2000. 582 pages, hardbound; ISBN 0-87590-950-7.

Resources:

• Munsell Colors